Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new. Buy Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Findlen, Paula Online with upto 30 discount from Atlantic. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. She is the author of several books, including Possessing Nature: Museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Paula Findlen is a historian of science and technology at Stanford University. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Paula Findlen, Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modem Italy.

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